Re: General Quiz

Hi ganesh

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers #3543 and #3544 are correct. Excellent!

#3545. Name the British industrialist; Known as the great Staffordshire ironmaster, he found many new applications for iron, developed a boring machine whose precision enabled James Watt to perfect his steam engine, and used Watt's first steam engine to drive a huge air pump in his factory for the large-scale manufacture of wrought iron.

#3546. Name the English physicist; best known for his double-slit interference experiment which validated the wave theory of light and for the elastic modulus named for him.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

Re: General Quiz

Re: General Quiz

#3547. Name the Polish astronomer who was the first in Renaissance Europe to advance the heliocentric theory, namely, that Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun.

#3548. Name the engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed petrol engine and the first four-wheel automobile.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.